The works of Geber / Englished by Richard Russell, 1678.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.

Contributor:

Russel, Richard.

Holmyard, Eric John, 1891-1959, editor.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 1928

Language:

Arabic

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Physical Description:

xl, 264 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 20 cm

Edition:

A new edition with introduction by E.J. Holmyard.

Place of Publication:

London : Dent ; New York : Dutton, 1928.

Contents:

Of the investigation or search of perfection.

Of the sum of perfection, or of the perfect magistery.

Of the invention of verity, or perfection.

Of furnaces, &c. with a recapitulation of the author's experiments.

Notes:

The English translation was published in 1678, and is here reprinted with the addition of figures taken from the Latin edition published at Berne in 1545."--Editor's preface.

Contains reproductions of the title-pages of the Latin edition of 1545 and of the English translation of 1678.

Bibliography: pages xxii-xxiii.

OCLC:

1279493